The ATG World XI's game

[kyear2]

Neil Harvey

Denis Lindsay

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Charles Macartney

Don Tallon

 

[NUFAN]

Javed Miandad

Ian Healy - The keeper spot is very tough. Even with Pollock and Lindwall neither of them should bat at 7. So I'm happy enough with Healy to bat there as he always did and he was a great keeper anyway.

 

[Noble One]

Farohk Engineer (Gloves) - With a quality spinner in the side, we need a strong wicketkeeper like Engineer.

Andy Flower - I could select 20 different names for this position given this side is well balanced. Flower is a favourite of mine, however I don't want him selected in as a keeper and will continue to push for him as a specialist bat.

 

[Cabinet96]

Dennis Compton
Andy Flower

 

[kyear2]

A nice piece on Harvey
Ashley Mallett on the five best batsmen he has seen | Opinion | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[ankitj]

Compton, Sangakkara

 

[Dan]

Denis Compton

Quality batsman, and can provide a decent second spin option to the team as well. Between him and Worrell, we have a decent fifth bowler.

Denis Lindsay

Proper wicketkeeper, used to the workload, and produces with the bat, with that workload. If these teams battle against the best, they can't afford to be missing chances.

Agreed completely with Vic.

 

[Jager]

Alright, I hadn't realized there had been so many votes.

Final vote tally

Compton: 6
McCabe: 2
Miandad: 4
Faulkner: 1
Harvey: 1
Macartney: 1
Flower: 1

Lindsay: 3
Tallon: 2
Evans: 1
Waite: 2
Flower: 3
Russell: 1
Engineer: 2
Healy: 1
Sangakkara: 1

 

[Jager]

The winner for the wicketkeeper slot will be Denis Lindsay as I had the last vote. Denis Compton took the batting vote with 6 votes. I placed Compton at 5 because it seemed for more natural for him to be there.

Final World D XI
1. Greenidge
2. Hayden
3. Dravid
4. Compton
5. Weekes
6. Worrell
7. Lindsay
8. S Pollock
9. Lindwall (1)
10. Garner (2)
11. Grimmett

World XI
1. J Hobbs 2. L Hutton 3. D Bradman 4. V Richards 5. S Tendulkar 6. G Sobers 7. A Gilchrist 8. I Khan 9 S. Warne 10. M Marshall 11. G McGrath

World A XI
1. S Gavaskar 2. H Sutcliffe 3. G Headley 4. B Lara 5. W Hammond 6. J Kallis 7. A Knott 8. R Hadlee 9. W Akram 10. C Ambrose 11. M Muralitharan

World B XI
1. B Richards 2. V Trumper 3. G Chappell 4. G Pollock 5. A Border 6. K Miller 7. L Ames 8. D Lillee 9. F Trueman 10. B O'Reilly 11. S Barnes

World C XI
1. Geoff Boycott 2. W.G Grace 3. Ricky Ponting 4. Ken Barrington 5. Stephen Waugh 6. Clyde Walcott 7. Ian Botham 8. Davidson 9. Holding 10. Laker 11. Donald

Please pull me up if I have made any mistakes. If not, now over to NUFAN.

 

[weldone]

So, who wins between Flower and Lindsay?

 

[Noble One]

Lindsay over Flower the right decision.

Flower was a serviceable keeper to the likes of Streak and Paul Strang. To expect him to keep against Lindwall, Garner, Pollock and Grimmett would be stretching his ability.

 

[Jager]

Should we bat Compton in his preferred number 4 position and move Weekes to 5?

 

[Dan]

Should we bat Compton in his preferred number 4 position and move Weekes to 5?

Yes.

 

[kyear2]

Should we bat Compton in his preferred number 4 position and move Weekes to 5?

No. Weekes preferred position was also 4. And earned the votes to bat at 4.

 

[NUFAN]

Thanks Jager. The World D XI looks good, I think we need to first work out what batting order is best though.

1) Select the batting order for the World D XI

2) Select the World E XI's number 3 and 4.

3) Select the World E XI's two opening bowlers


Suggested batsman
Zaheer Abbas, Ian Chappell, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Colin Cowdrey, Martin Crowe, Aravinda de Silva, Ted Dexter, AB de Villers, Andy Flower, David Gower, Tom Graveney, Neil Harvey, Lindsay Hassett, Vijay Hazare, Stanley Jackson, Mahela Jayawardene, Alvin Kallicharan, Younus Khan, Rohan Kanhai, VVS Laxman, Clive Lloyd, Charlie Macartney, Peter May, Stan McCabe, Javed Miandad, Dudley Nourse, Norman O'Neill, Eddie Paynter, Kevin Pietersen, Lawrence Rowe, Kumar Sangakkara, Herbie Taylor, Inzamam ul-Haq, Doug Walters, Mark Waugh, Frank Wooley, Mohammad Yousuf

Suggested Quicks
Neil Adcock, Shoaib Akhtar, James Anderson, Alec Bedser, Ian Bishop, Colin Croft, Kapil Dev, Andrew Flintoff, Jason Gillespie, Wes Hall, Harold Larwood, George Lohmann, Fazal Mahmood, Mike Procter, Andy Roberts, John Snow, Fred Spofforth, Brian Statham, Dale Steyn, Heath Streak, Frank Tyson, Charlie Turner, Chaminda Vaas, Courtney Walsh, Bob Willis, Waqar Younis

 

[Noble One]

1) As is.
2) Andy Flower / Neil Harvey
3) Alec Bedser / Andy Roberts

 

[vic_orthdox]

Neil Harvey

Strokemaker, super talented, all time great.

Javed Miandad

Fighter who would make any of the aforementioned sides work their **** off to get his wicket.

Andy Roberts

Fearsome fast bowler, with a lot of class. Leader of an attack.

John Snow

Completes my menacing opening bowling attack, relentless and threatening from both ends.

 

[NUFAN]

1 My order: 1. Greenidge 2. Hayden 3. Dravid 4 Weekes 5 Worrell 6 Compton 7 Lindsay 8 Pollock 9 Lindwall 10 Garner 11 Grimmett

2 Javed Miandad I've been picking him for a while now.
Neil Harvey I can't see anyone who's better out of the suggested list.

3 Waqar Younis Loved this guy, such a brilliant bowler
Courtney Walsh Somewhat underrated, Walsh is due for inclusion.



Voting
3 & 4
Flower 1
Harvey 9
Miandad 7
KP 1
Sangakkara 3
Gower 1
Chanderpaul 1
Macartney 1
McCabe 1
Crowe 1
Kanhai 2


2 Quicks
Bedser 2
Roberts 7
Snow 3
Waqar 7
Walsh 3
Spofforth 1
Larwood 3
Steyn 2


Last voter Jager

 

[G.I.Joe]

As is.
Pietersen, Miandad.
Waqar, Roberts.